Miksa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Miksa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hungarian: similar to God.
- HRCroatia1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 24K
- CZCzechia1 in 37K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,616 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hungarian: similar to God
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miksa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,616 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miksa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, a male given name, equivalent to English Maximilian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite neuter plural of miks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Gļotas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tadeusz Miksab. 1926PLPolish footballer
- Gerhard Miksab. 1935DEGerman association football player
- Francis L. Miksab. 1938USAmerican library professor (1938-2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 821 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 821 | #3,884 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 795 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 795 | #3,910 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 289 | #5,700 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 288 | #4,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 235 | #80,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 62 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30 | #16,506 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 16 | #25,500 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miksa mean, and where does it come from?
- Hungarian: similar to God Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Miksa?
- In the etymology graph, Cai, Nicolau and Milian are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Miksa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Miksa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miksa.
- Where is Miksa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miksa is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Miksa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,616 people named Miksa in 2026, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miksa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.